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  • Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster, Survival and One Man's Ultimate Test (Paperback)

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    In the depths of Antarctic winter, hundreds of miles from land or rescue, a small fishing boat is swallowed by waves as high as houses. The capt...

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  • A Private War

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    Now a major motion picture - starring Rosamund Pike, Stanley Tucci and Jamie Dornan.The book that inspired the film A Private War, based on acclaim...

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  • A Terrible Secret: Scared for her safety, Tilly places herself into care. A shocking true story.

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    Tilly hates her stepfather, Dave. He abuses her mother, but she refuses to leave him. Frightened for her own safety, Tilly asks to go int...

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    Adrift: A True Story of Love, Loss and Survival at Sea

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    THE HEART-STOPPING MEMOIR, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SHAILENE WOODLEY AND SAM CLAFLIN, AND DIRECTED BY BALTASAR KORMAKUR (EV...

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  • Alone: the Search for Brett Archibald

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  • Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

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    Abducted from Africa, sold in America. "A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life"- Daily Telegraph A major literary e...

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    Brave: How I rebuilt my life after love turned to hate

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    Control. Jealousy. Isolation. Blame. Anger. Violence.The inspiring true story of a young woman who suffered a terrifyingly abusive relationship cul...

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  • Brave New Humans: The Dirty Reality of Donor Conception

    Sarah Dingle
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    An astonishing real-life whodunnit and investigative expose, Brave New Humans reveals the uncomfortable realities of assisted reproduction and its ...

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  • BRING OUR GIRLS BACK TPB

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    Bounty hunters, the manpower of western militaries and special Swiss agents were all deployed but they either met road block after road block or fl...

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    A Dark Secret

    Casey Watson
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    Just when Casey thinks her foster care duties are done, she's asked to look after Sam, a troubled nine-year-old with a violent streak who drove his...

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  • DISAPPEARING ACT TPB

    CHANGY, FLORENCE DE
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    'The affair was weird when seen from afar, but seen close-up, it was Kafkaesque: it was not possible in 2014 for a Boei...

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  • DREAM HORSE PB

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    The moving true story of an ordinary Welsh woman who dreamed of breeding a race horse, and Dream Alliance, who defied the odds to become a champion...

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  • Exposure

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    ERIN BROCKOVICH meets SILENT SPRING in this astounding true story of a lawyer who spent two decades building a case against one of the world's larg...

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  • Finding Stevie: A dark secret. A child in crisis.

    Cathy Glass
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    Finding Stevie is a dark and poignant true story that highlights the dangers lurking online. When Stevie's social worker tells Cathy, an ...

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  • Finding Gobi (Main edition): The true story of a little dog and an incredible journey

    Dion Leonard
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER Like A Streecat Named Bob before it, Finding Gobi is a truly heart-warming story for animal lovers worldwide......

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  • Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-ravaged Hospital

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    In the tradition of the best writing on human behaviour and moral choices in the face of disaster, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs f...

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  • For The People

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    A small town's struggle for freedom against apartheid 'They call her Nobantu. I call her mother.' ...

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  • Freedom

    Sebastian Junger
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    A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm. Throughout history, humans have been driven by th...

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  • Great Escapes: Thrilling escape stories from Devil's Island to Alcatraz

    Ian Crofton
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    Great Escapes brings together extraordinary stories of daring escapes from prison, prisoner-of-war camps and other places of incarceration and conf...

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  • Human Kindness: True stories that reveal the depths of the human experience

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    Kindness comes in many forms and affects all of us. As Mark Twain said, 'Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.' A...

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  • In My Father's House

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  • Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro

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    In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a nail-biting account of the sinking of...

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  • On Chapel Sands

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    Autumn 1929 - a young girl is kidnapped from a beach. Five agonising days go by before she is discovered safe and well in a nearby village. The chi...

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  • Operation Morthor

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    A PLANE CRASH IN THE JUNGLE.A LEGENDARY STATESMAN DEAD.A TRAGIC ACCIDENT... OR THE ULTIMATE CONSPIRACY?In 1961, a Douglas DC-6B aeroplane transport...

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